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' ',!• /<' ^ < Of 41 Year Drouth Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1964 Number 6 Title Hungry Ags Defeat Place Tech, 82-70 Only SMU, TCU, Texas Bar Dream BENNIE GOES HIGH FOR SCORE A&M’s Bennie Lenox adds two points to the Aggie scoreboard. A&M To Host Industrial Arts Confab Friday “Industrial Arts for A Changingare expected, Leslie V. Hawkins, | World” will be the theme as 300 teachers and others concerned with industrial arts programs in four states meet Friday and Saturday on campus. Most of those attending will be Texans but teachers from Louisi ana, Arkansas and Oklahoma also Vice Chancellor’s Son Found Dead HOUSTON (A*) — Bodies of a missing Rice University co-ed and a postal employee were found Tuesday in a hotel room. Police said each had been shot ■to death. Detective A, E. Rockwell ident- ■ the dead as Miss Kaylah [ Holcomb, 20, missing from her Rice \ dormitory since Saturday, and John JjH- Calhoun, 22, son of Dr. John | Calhoun Jr. — vice chancellor of A&M University. J- L. Turner, a medical investi- gator, said the two had been dead three or four days. \ ^ ss Holcomb was a daughter ; of Mr - and Mrs. Henry A. Hol comb of Baytown. She was a jun ior at Rice. i ^ r ° un £ Calhoun had attended 1'Rice in the fall, but was employed | by the post office at the time of bis death . Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS SAIGON, South Viet Nam i H. S. backed government troops attacked Communist guer- I Positions in the Seven contains area near the Cam bodian frontier Tuesday. Heavy | action was reported in the first i contacts. The action came in the wake | °f bloody ambushes of a train I northeast of Saigon and a mili- I tary truck convoy southwest of I this city by Red Viet Cong | ands Monday. The govern- | ment lost a total of 22 dead or I missing. Six guerrillas were I found dead. I U. S. NEWS | Washington — Final house I Passage Tuesday brought the long- pawaited tax cut bill to the brink |'° reality. Senate passage Wed nesday and President Johnson’s signature, possibly Wednesday ni ght, will wrap it up. NEW ORLEANS — An East on Air Lines four-engine jet plane crashed into Lake Pont- chartrain Tuesday, and the 58 Persons aboard perished. The aircraft, enroute from Mexico City to New York, van- ished shortly after take-off here. conference director, said. The Texas Industrial Arts As sociation and the Department of Industrial Education co-sponsor the Industrial Teacher Conference and ninth annual Industrial Arts Con ference. The meeting is the larg est of its kind in the Southwest, Hawkins said. M. D. Williamson of North Tex as State University is president of the state association. Dr. Chris H. Groneman heads the industrial education program at A&M. Dr. Shriver L. Coover, director of the industrial arts department of California State College in California, Pa., will serve as con ference consultant and speak to a general session Friday night and the closing luncheon Saturday. “Dr. Coover has developed one of the leading teacher education departments in the country,” Haw kins said. The Pennsylvania edu cator is a past president of the In dustrial Arts Section of the Amer ican Vocational Association, and author and a consultant. Speaking at the opening gen eral session will be Lee Wilborn, assistant commissioner for instruc tion of the Texas Education Agency. The conference program includes a meeting Friday night of the Texas Industrial Arts Association with results of the recent election conducted by mail to be announced. Luby LeNorman Jr., of West Columbia and John Richards of the Fort Worth public schools are nominees for the vice presidency. Thomas L. Bay Jr., of Freeport and Hilary Blanton Ford of Cal houn are nominees for secretary- treasurer. By JIM BUTLER Battalion Sports Editor And a king was crowned! While Cassius Clay was taking the title from Sonny Liston, the Aggies virtually clinched their first Southwest Conference crown in 41 years with an 82-70 win over Texas Tech before a capacity crowd of 8,500 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The victory that put the Cadets two games out in front of their nearest rival—Tech—was even sweeter considering 1 Tech’s win over the Aggies in Lubbock, but this time the clock kept running. A&M IS NOW 10-1 in league play while the Red Raiders are 8-3. The Maroon has three games to play—SMU and UT here and TCU in Fort Worth.- CONQUERING HEROES Team gets jubilant reception after 82-70 defeat of Tech. English Department Makes Major Curriculum Changes Curriculum changes to place the Department of English at A&M University “in a position to com pete favorably in the English ma jor with the best institutions in the state and elsewhere” were an- Graff To Speak At Dallas Meeting Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff, president of the College Station United Chest Inc., will speak Thursday at the annual meeting in Dallas of the Texas United Fund Inc. Dean Graff’s paper is entitled “What the United Fund Means to a Medium-Sized Community.” Other speakers for the one- day meeting will include Gen eral Russell F. Gustke and Tex as civic and industrial leaders. Ruby Jury Adds Aggie’s Mother A 20-year-old A&M University student said here Tuesday he was completely “flabbergasted” to learn that his mother, Mrs. Mildred Mc Collum of Garland, is the third juror accepted for the Jack Ruby murder trial. She also is the second of the three jurors to be connected with Texas A&M, either directly or in directly. The second venireman chosen was Allen W. McCoy of Ir ving, a 1950 industrial engineering graduate of the university. Mrs. McCollum’s son at A&M is James Earl McCollum, a junior in wildlife management. “I heard the news Monday after noon on the radio, and I didn t know what to think at the time. It caught me by surprise. I’m flabbergasted,” James recalled. He said he felt honored that she was picked and that she and the other jurors will be making his tory. “I think she can render a fair decision. But on the other hand, I don’t much like the idea because she will be locked up for no telling how long, and she will be away from home all that time,” the stu dent pointed out. James has three brothers and two sisters, all younger than he. His father is a machinist for Geo technical Corporation of Garland. “Boy, is that house going to be disorganized while she is gone,” James mused. “But maybe Dad can keep things under control. And maybe my grandmother, Mrs. Geo rge McCollum of Greenville, can come over and help keep house.” He said rigorous studies at Tex as A&M will keep him from sit ting in on the Ruby trial. Mrs. McCollum is secretary for Alabama Construction Company in Dallas. nounced by Dr. John Q. Ander son, the department head. Six new graduate and under graduate courses in literature will be offered this summer. Other new courses will come next fall. Ten existing courses are being increased from two to three col lege credits and four courses are being dropped. “These changes are a part of our move to bring the department up in course offerings to meet the new role of the institution as a university,” Anderson said. Two of the 11 new undergrad uate courses will be offered this summer. They are English 463, History and Theory of Literary Criticism, and English 375, Nine teenth Century American Novel. The other new undergraduate courses are: English 341, Ad vanced Composition; 376, Twenti eth Century American Novel; 417, English Drama to 1642; 426, Nine teenth Century English Prose; 427, The English Novel; 343, Dis cussion and Debate; and Theater Arts, 378, Techniques of Acting; 380, History of the Theater; and 383, Techniques of Directing. The new graduate courses scheduled for the first six-week summer semester are English 614, Renaissance Non-Dramatic Litera ture, and English 649, Twentieth Centery British Literature. During the second summer se mester English 650, Twentieth Century American Literature, and 633, The Romantic Age, will be offered. The other new graduate courses are English 616, the Age of Pope; 617, The Age of Johnson; 634, The Victorian Age; and 674, The Age of Transcendentalism. “The sequence of 11 graduate courses is now arranged so that a graduate student may enter at any given term and expect to have different courses each term until he completes his course work,” Anderson said. “And graduate students who attend in summers only will have a different set of courses each summer.” Fish Drill Team Wins Third Place A third place trophy marked the Freshman Drill Team’s per formance in competition over the weekend at Purdue University, Capt. Calvin Reese, team ad visor, said Monday. “It was the best competition I’ve seen in four years and the men looked good,” Reese said. Eighteen teams participated. The drill team’s next meet is March 21 at Louisiana State University. One win will cinch a tie while two will cinch the title. Tech took their first, last and only lead of the game when sophomore Dub Malaise opened the contest with a free shot. Then A&M’s top soph John Beasley took over and it was all Big John for the next two and a half minutes. Beas hit four jump shots and a free throw to boost the Cadets to a 12-5 margin. THE MATADORS closed it to 12-9 but just couldn’t contend with Beasley’s touch. The smooth post man from Kildare ended the first 20 minutes with 15 points and the Ags held a 45-29 lead, hit ting 53.8 per cent of their shots to 39.3 for Tech. For four minutes in the first half, the league-leading Cadets de- dense held the league-leading Raider offense scoreless. With the help of referee Dan Watson, Tech made an effort to duplicate their game-winning ral ly in Lubbock. After five minutes of the second period, the Raiders had cut the gap to four, 46-42. THEN BENNIE LENOX and Dick Stringfellow pulled the Ca dets back together. Lenox came off a bout with the measles to put in 17 points in the final 20 minutes and top the Ags in scor ing with 21. Stringfellow played the top game of his career stealing the ball and bucketing crucial field goals. The soph guard totaled 14 points for the night. Senior Bill Robinette played his usual fine game scoring nine points while Paul Timmins was tremendous on defense. Timmins combined with Beasley for the finest play of the game. He passed behind his back to Beasley on the post, taking the return pass in for a layup. A&M COACH SHELBY Metcalf played 11 men and all 11 played like all-conference selections. Bil ly Atkinson and Cecil Ferguson played great games on defense while Ken Norman and Tim Tim merman chipped in crucial goals to maintain the Aggie lead. Bill Gasway was held scoreless for the first game in a long time, but was tough on the boards. And then there was John Rey nolds. The soph from Possum Walk was hardly in a minute be fore being hit by Tech’s Glen Hallum and returning in kind. Fouls were called on both players after a minor riot and the two were ejected from the game. Malaise led all scorers with 27 points while Norman Reuther put in 17 and Harold Denney 11. Denney led rebounders with 13. Beasley pulled off 12 for A&M. Graduate Seminar To Meet Thursday Faculty research of the A&M University Department of History and Government will be the topic at 4 p.m. Thursday as the month ly Graduate Colloquia meets in the Architecture Building Auditor ium. Dr. J. M. Nance as department head will comment on research ef forts and Drs. Lloyd C. Taylor and Neil R. Stout will present brief papers. The graduate colloquia series provides opportunities for re searchers in the many areas of graduate study to exchange ideas and learn something of the prog ress made by others. An informal coffee period commences at 3:30 p.m. and the program ends at 5. 'mmmm* . i To Appear At ITS These six lovelies, known as the Apache right, Linda Dike, Jan Grimes, Ginger Blass, Belles, will be at A&M March 6 for the In- Claudette Adcock, Macia Rodieck and Sally tercollegiate Talent Show. They are, left to Arnold.